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Welcome or welcome back! Time changes are disruptive. In the US, this week has been a week of recovering from time change. We need relief. In my research into what people grieving a loss want, I’ve learned that validation and orientation matter. As I’ve written in earlier issues…
And better structured emails, more on the friends survey, and online grief packets.
Welcome! Or welcome back. This weekly newsletter is intended to give you stories and tools to help you be more comfortable as you help others in hard times. (Be sure to look at the archives!) This week, I’m starting by making you uncomfortable. When you can’t make healthcare…
Welcome. Or welcome back. +++ “To be more persuasive, change verbs to nouns.” It’s not often that I think about grammar. But Daniel Pink and Jonah Berger were talking about how changing two letters can make people more responsive, so I thought about grammar.

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Welcome or welcome back! (I hope you got to watch my video this week. It made me feel a little more connected.) I’m bringing a potluck of resources…
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004 - A short video to let you hear my voice. Watch now (4 min) | That sounds funny, right? That I want you to hear my voice? But tone of voice and ways of talking are so much part of how we provide…
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Welcome! (Or welcome back) You and I are here because we want to help people in times of loss. Sometimes those people are in our mirror. Sometimes they…
Welcome back! From what I know about the subscribers to this newsletter, you are the kind of person who asks, “What’s one way I can be helpful when…
As I started researching being helpful in loss in mid-2022, learned about a new-to-me model of bereavement coping called the DPM, Dual Process Model. It…
If you are part of this readership, you are the kind of person who asks, “What’s one way I can be helpful when someone’s lost a loved one?” It’s often…
Some people write about using Sunday afternoon or evening as an opportunity to plan for the week. You review the calendar, you check your to-do lists…
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“Where are you?” he asked. “In the kitchen,” she said. “What are you doing?” “Working.” “Are you cold?” “No.” It's a pretty ordinary conversation…
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Finding Words in Hard Times - with Jon Swanson

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